Bushra al-Tawil

Bushra al-Tawil or Bushra al-Taweel is a Palestinian journalist, former Palestinian prisoner and prisoners' rights activist from Ramallah who has frequently been held under administrative detention without charge by Israel. She is the spokesperson for the Aneen Al-Qaid Media Network, a local news agency specialized in covering news about the Palestinian detainees, and political prisoners.

Education and career

Al-Tawil began studying journalism after she was first detained and released again by the Israeli authorities in 2011.

On December 11, 2019, she was arrested, after Israeli soldiers raided the Umm Al-Sharayet neighbourhood in al-Bireh. The arrest came less than a week after the release of her father, who had been held in administrative detention for two years. for which she was held in the Hasharon prison in northern Israel. Her father, a former mayor of Al-Bireh and a Hamas leader, began a hunger strike demanding his daughter's release. Al-Tawil credited her father's strike for her release.

She was arrested on March 22, 2022, in Nablus.

Family

Al-Tawil's father is Jamal al-Tawil, a prominent Hamas leader, former mayor of Al-Bireh, and former prisoner and has spent many years in prison. She has three brothers.